Considering some of the things that he's already said, there's nothing he could say which would surprise me. But the good things he's done do often get overlooked, albeit it's not surprising.
A social media site wanting a chairman out. How original!
I would never call him a bad chairman, he may be a bad, ruthless person but he's a million times better than Paul Duffen.
I dont know if this is a joke, irony or just incredibly poorly informed. But i'll entertain it nontheless.... name me one single way in which Allam is better than Paul Duffen?
They both got us promoted, they both (so far) have treated us to 2 seasons of top flight football. That's where the similarities end. Duffen didnt take every opportunity to piss off his customers, say "they can die when they want", call the club name and heritage "lousy and irrelevant", ignore the rules of tenancy and evict dozens of valuable community groups from a community asset that he doesnt own and all this while running up ONE THIRD of the debt that Allam has, a debt that the club pays for with considerable interest.
it made a profit because he changed the year end and missed out July - he didn't want it up for sale showing a loss - anyone doing proper due diligence would see this - compare this with the 'astute businessman' in charge who totally ****ed up his due diligence because he couldn't wait to get his grubby hands on the club because he thought he would make a fortune and in the process failed to check the accounts properly and failed to understand most of the legal documentation, covenants and responsibilitiesYou're completely blind if you can't appreciate anything the Allam's have done for the club. But he's a list nonetheless:
Loaned the club a large amount of money so we could survive
He's a business man - he loaned the money because he thought he could make money - that's all - I wasn't a philanthropic gift or anything like that - it was a businessman making a business decision for himself - no credit needed
Brought in Bruce on a big contract
One year rolling is not a big contract - but to be fair a big name manager
Backed Bruce in the transfer market for the promotion push which meant we could bring in players like Brady, Quinn, Boyd, Proschwitz which led to promotion
Proschwitz - arf - the first of a number of **** buys in the transfer market
Backed Bruce again with transfer in our 1st year. Broke our transfer record in 3 consecutive windows helping us get to FA Cup Final and Europe
don't forget Amos, Graham, Sagbo - broke our record - where exactly has it got us - with one or two exceptions , we will never get our money back on what we've spent
Backed him again last season. Spent £25m net in the summer
massively overpaid for Livermore and Hernandez - brought in Ben Arfa, dumped, and Ince and Maguire, farmed out
Improved the 1st team training facilities
doesn't seem to have worked - we're going backwards
Completely revamped the youth set up so that we should get Cat 2 very soon
do you mean the bit where he **** on the tenants of the Airco and the Council are taking him to court
Many improvements also made in the stadium
do you mean the bit where people now get in 20 minutes after the game has started or the 'kop' was evicted from E1 to E3
Gave Bruce a 3 yr contract
he should have been sacked
Also gave Aluko a new contract, which was huge at the time.
I can't make my mind up whether this post is a spoof or you're deluded
Turned the club around so that we made a profit when the latest accounts were published
You're forgetting the position that Duffen left us in. We were going out of business. Yes, Allam has pissed all over the fans but financially we are in a much better position than we were under Duffen. If we do go down, then we have a squad full of sell-able assets. Duffen pissed all the money away on champagne and extravagance and completely overpaid players.
No I'm not and no we're not. We have 3 times the debt that Duffen left us with.
And who exactly is sellable? The only players I think we will make profit on are Elmo, Chester and Robertson.
We'd return a profit on the vast amount of the squad.
We'd get a good £6-8m for Ince alone as long as Derby got promoted.
We'd get our money back for Jela, Dawson, N'Doye, Huddlestone
We'd make money on Chester, Elmo, Diame
We wouldn't be short of takers for many of our players that's for sure.
And we wouldn't be left with a bad Championship squad either.
Right, hang on - you say we'd 'return a profit on the vast amount of the squad' and then you only name 4, 2 of which I'd named. And if you think we'd make a profit on a players who between them have played a grand total of 19 games for us..... you seriously, SERIOUSLY, think we'd get £6-8m for Ince? If we get that we've done a better job than Zamparini did with Hernandez....
Ince has got 10 in 16 for Derby from the wing. They're desperate to sign him and their fans are talking about similar figures. He's still young and although he wasn't great for us, he guarantee you goals in the Championship. Considering what promotion is worth and the money Championship clubs are starting to spend, around the £6m mark doesn't seem unfeasible.
I didn't include players I thought we'd want to keep.
Robertson
Brady
Rosenior
Meyler
Quinn
Aluko
Slight profit on McGregor
All the above we'd sell quite comfortably for more than what we paid. Only Meyler could be an exception
Derby were joint top when Ince signed. They've won 5 games in 3 months since he signed. They're not top anymore.